Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group
Apr
20

Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Description: The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly, trans-centered, international psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings are inspired by member’s input and by an interest in current social crisis relating to: trans identity, decolonized and political clinical praxis, the rise in fascism, social dreaming, critiques of liberal subjectivity, colonial relations, free clinics, and difficult feelings like ambivalence, frustration, and love.

At the Tiresias Salon, we come as together as trans and queer clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimagined at the margins. Annual readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants may be seeking to reflect on dynamics in their clinical practice, engaging psychoanalysis in their scholarship or writing, or be interested in using psychoanalysis in realms of activism or art.

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Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group
May
11

Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Description: The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly, trans-centered, international psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings are inspired by member’s input and by an interest in current social crisis relating to: trans identity, decolonized and political clinical praxis, the rise in fascism, social dreaming, critiques of liberal subjectivity, colonial relations, free clinics, and difficult feelings like ambivalence, frustration, and love.

At the Tiresias Salon, we come as together as trans and queer clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimagined at the margins. Annual readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants may be seeking to reflect on dynamics in their clinical practice, engaging psychoanalysis in their scholarship or writing, or be interested in using psychoanalysis in realms of activism or art.

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Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group
May
25

Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Description: The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly, trans-centered, international psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings are inspired by member’s input and by an interest in current social crisis relating to: trans identity, decolonized and political clinical praxis, the rise in fascism, social dreaming, critiques of liberal subjectivity, colonial relations, free clinics, and difficult feelings like ambivalence, frustration, and love.

At the Tiresias Salon, we come as together as trans and queer clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimagined at the margins. Annual readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants may be seeking to reflect on dynamics in their clinical practice, engaging psychoanalysis in their scholarship or writing, or be interested in using psychoanalysis in realms of activism or art.

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Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group
Jun
8

Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Description: The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly, trans-centered, international psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings are inspired by member’s input and by an interest in current social crisis relating to: trans identity, decolonized and political clinical praxis, the rise in fascism, social dreaming, critiques of liberal subjectivity, colonial relations, free clinics, and difficult feelings like ambivalence, frustration, and love.

At the Tiresias Salon, we come as together as trans and queer clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimagined at the margins. Annual readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants may be seeking to reflect on dynamics in their clinical practice, engaging psychoanalysis in their scholarship or writing, or be interested in using psychoanalysis in realms of activism or art.

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Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group
Jun
22

Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Description: The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly, trans-centered, international psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings are inspired by member’s input and by an interest in current social crisis relating to: trans identity, decolonized and political clinical praxis, the rise in fascism, social dreaming, critiques of liberal subjectivity, colonial relations, free clinics, and difficult feelings like ambivalence, frustration, and love.

At the Tiresias Salon, we come as together as trans and queer clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimagined at the margins. Annual readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants may be seeking to reflect on dynamics in their clinical practice, engaging psychoanalysis in their scholarship or writing, or be interested in using psychoanalysis in realms of activism or art.

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Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group
Jul
6

Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Description: The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly, trans-centered, international psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings are inspired by member’s input and by an interest in current social crisis relating to: trans identity, decolonized and political clinical praxis, the rise in fascism, social dreaming, critiques of liberal subjectivity, colonial relations, free clinics, and difficult feelings like ambivalence, frustration, and love.

At the Tiresias Salon, we come as together as trans and queer clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimagined at the margins. Annual readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants may be seeking to reflect on dynamics in their clinical practice, engaging psychoanalysis in their scholarship or writing, or be interested in using psychoanalysis in realms of activism or art.

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Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group
Jul
20

Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Description: The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly, trans-centered, international psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings are inspired by member’s input and by an interest in current social crisis relating to: trans identity, decolonized and political clinical praxis, the rise in fascism, social dreaming, critiques of liberal subjectivity, colonial relations, free clinics, and difficult feelings like ambivalence, frustration, and love.

At the Tiresias Salon, we come as together as trans and queer clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimagined at the margins. Annual readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants may be seeking to reflect on dynamics in their clinical practice, engaging psychoanalysis in their scholarship or writing, or be interested in using psychoanalysis in realms of activism or art.

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Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group
Aug
3

Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Description: The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly, trans-centered, international psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings are inspired by member’s input and by an interest in current social crisis relating to: trans identity, decolonized and political clinical praxis, the rise in fascism, social dreaming, critiques of liberal subjectivity, colonial relations, free clinics, and difficult feelings like ambivalence, frustration, and love.

At the Tiresias Salon, we come as together as trans and queer clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimagined at the margins. Annual readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants may be seeking to reflect on dynamics in their clinical practice, engaging psychoanalysis in their scholarship or writing, or be interested in using psychoanalysis in realms of activism or art.

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Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group
Aug
17

Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Description: The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly, trans-centered, international psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings are inspired by member’s input and by an interest in current social crisis relating to: trans identity, decolonized and political clinical praxis, the rise in fascism, social dreaming, critiques of liberal subjectivity, colonial relations, free clinics, and difficult feelings like ambivalence, frustration, and love.

At the Tiresias Salon, we come as together as trans and queer clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimagined at the margins. Annual readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants may be seeking to reflect on dynamics in their clinical practice, engaging psychoanalysis in their scholarship or writing, or be interested in using psychoanalysis in realms of activism or art.

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Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group
Aug
31

Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Description: The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly, trans-centered, international psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings are inspired by member’s input and by an interest in current social crisis relating to: trans identity, decolonized and political clinical praxis, the rise in fascism, social dreaming, critiques of liberal subjectivity, colonial relations, free clinics, and difficult feelings like ambivalence, frustration, and love.

At the Tiresias Salon, we come as together as trans and queer clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimagined at the margins. Annual readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants may be seeking to reflect on dynamics in their clinical practice, engaging psychoanalysis in their scholarship or writing, or be interested in using psychoanalysis in realms of activism or art.

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Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group
Sep
14

Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Description: The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly, trans-centered, international psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings are inspired by member’s input and by an interest in current social crisis relating to: trans identity, decolonized and political clinical praxis, the rise in fascism, social dreaming, critiques of liberal subjectivity, colonial relations, free clinics, and difficult feelings like ambivalence, frustration, and love.

At the Tiresias Salon, we come as together as trans and queer clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimagined at the margins. Annual readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants may be seeking to reflect on dynamics in their clinical practice, engaging psychoanalysis in their scholarship or writing, or be interested in using psychoanalysis in realms of activism or art.

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Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group
Sep
28

Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Description: The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly, trans-centered, international psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings are inspired by member’s input and by an interest in current social crisis relating to: trans identity, decolonized and political clinical praxis, the rise in fascism, social dreaming, critiques of liberal subjectivity, colonial relations, free clinics, and difficult feelings like ambivalence, frustration, and love.

At the Tiresias Salon, we come as together as trans and queer clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimagined at the margins. Annual readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants may be seeking to reflect on dynamics in their clinical practice, engaging psychoanalysis in their scholarship or writing, or be interested in using psychoanalysis in realms of activism or art.

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Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group
Oct
12

Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Description: The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly, trans-centered, international psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings are inspired by member’s input and by an interest in current social crisis relating to: trans identity, decolonized and political clinical praxis, the rise in fascism, social dreaming, critiques of liberal subjectivity, colonial relations, free clinics, and difficult feelings like ambivalence, frustration, and love.

At the Tiresias Salon, we come as together as trans and queer clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimagined at the margins. Annual readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants may be seeking to reflect on dynamics in their clinical practice, engaging psychoanalysis in their scholarship or writing, or be interested in using psychoanalysis in realms of activism or art.

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Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group
Oct
26

Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Description: The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly, trans-centered, international psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings are inspired by member’s input and by an interest in current social crisis relating to: trans identity, decolonized and political clinical praxis, the rise in fascism, social dreaming, critiques of liberal subjectivity, colonial relations, free clinics, and difficult feelings like ambivalence, frustration, and love.

At the Tiresias Salon, we come as together as trans and queer clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimagined at the margins. Annual readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants may be seeking to reflect on dynamics in their clinical practice, engaging psychoanalysis in their scholarship or writing, or be interested in using psychoanalysis in realms of activism or art.

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Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group
Nov
9

Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Description: The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly, trans-centered, international psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings are inspired by member’s input and by an interest in current social crisis relating to: trans identity, decolonized and political clinical praxis, the rise in fascism, social dreaming, critiques of liberal subjectivity, colonial relations, free clinics, and difficult feelings like ambivalence, frustration, and love.

At the Tiresias Salon, we come as together as trans and queer clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimagined at the margins. Annual readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants may be seeking to reflect on dynamics in their clinical practice, engaging psychoanalysis in their scholarship or writing, or be interested in using psychoanalysis in realms of activism or art.

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Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group
Nov
23

Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Description: The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly, trans-centered, international psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings are inspired by member’s input and by an interest in current social crisis relating to: trans identity, decolonized and political clinical praxis, the rise in fascism, social dreaming, critiques of liberal subjectivity, colonial relations, free clinics, and difficult feelings like ambivalence, frustration, and love.

At the Tiresias Salon, we come as together as trans and queer clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimagined at the margins. Annual readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants may be seeking to reflect on dynamics in their clinical practice, engaging psychoanalysis in their scholarship or writing, or be interested in using psychoanalysis in realms of activism or art.

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Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group
Dec
7

Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Description: The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly, trans-centered, international psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings are inspired by member’s input and by an interest in current social crisis relating to: trans identity, decolonized and political clinical praxis, the rise in fascism, social dreaming, critiques of liberal subjectivity, colonial relations, free clinics, and difficult feelings like ambivalence, frustration, and love.

At the Tiresias Salon, we come as together as trans and queer clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimagined at the margins. Annual readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants may be seeking to reflect on dynamics in their clinical practice, engaging psychoanalysis in their scholarship or writing, or be interested in using psychoanalysis in realms of activism or art.

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Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group
Dec
21

Teiresias Salon: A Trans Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Description: The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly, trans-centered, international psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings are inspired by member’s input and by an interest in current social crisis relating to: trans identity, decolonized and political clinical praxis, the rise in fascism, social dreaming, critiques of liberal subjectivity, colonial relations, free clinics, and difficult feelings like ambivalence, frustration, and love.

At the Tiresias Salon, we come as together as trans and queer clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimagined at the margins. Annual readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants may be seeking to reflect on dynamics in their clinical practice, engaging psychoanalysis in their scholarship or writing, or be interested in using psychoanalysis in realms of activism or art.

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Dreaming Trans, Seminar 3
Apr
7

Dreaming Trans, Seminar 3

Transphobic Countertransference

Date: Tuesday, April 7

Time: 4:30–6:30 PM

Location: McGill University (in person; location provided upon registration)

This seminar examines the unconscious life of transphobia through the lens of countertransference. Part of the Dreaming Trans: Method, Sex, and the Unconscious seminar series, hosted by IGSF and the Sex in Theory Working Group.

Registration required:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJcAHiHnpJWITvprEi4x9QCsqyGpihEg07wFnqJiO2t4ZyOA/viewform

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Dreaming Trans, Seminar 2
Mar
24

Dreaming Trans, Seminar 2

Transmasculine Sexuality in Film, the Archive, and the Bathhouse

Film Screening: Desire Lines (2024)

Date: Tuesday, March 24

Time: 5:30–8:00 PM

Location: McGill University (in person; location provided upon registration)

This session features a screening of Desire Lines (2024) followed by discussion. Part of the Dreaming Trans: Method, Sex, and the Unconscious seminar series, hosted by IGSF and the Sex in Theory Working Group.

Registration required:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJcAHiHnpJWITvprEi4x9QCsqyGpihEg07wFnqJiO2t4ZyOA/viewform

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Dreaming Trans, Seminar 1
Mar
10

Dreaming Trans, Seminar 1

T4T Methodologies

Date: Tuesday, March 10

Time: 4:30–6:30 PM

Location: McGill University (in person; location provided upon registration)

This participatory seminar explores T4T methodologies and trans-specific approaches to research. Part of the Dreaming Trans: Method, Sex, and the Unconscious seminar series, hosted by the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) and the Sex in Theory Working Group.

Registration required:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJcAHiHnpJWITvprEi4x9QCsqyGpihEg07wFnqJiO2t4ZyOA/viewform

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Tiresias Salon: A Trans-Psychoanalytic Reading Group  (Copy)
Feb
23

Tiresias Salon: A Trans-Psychoanalytic Reading Group (Copy)

Tiresias Salon: A Trans-Psychoanalytic Reading Group 

Mondays bi-weekly, Sept 15, 2025 – May 31, 2026

11PT/12MT/2EST

Hosted by Tobias Wiggins 

The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly trans-centered psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings will be inspired by the P-Hole curriculum, which is running in parallel. We come as together as queer and trans clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimaged at the margins. Readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants will include clinicians seeking to reflect on dynamics in their practice, scholars engaging psychoanalysis in their research or writing, and activists interested in drawing psychoanalytic insights into social and political realms.

Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1faZE4SDBjH4-dF1ccp7NFvUhZFYpPoFubt3UoWHg-wE/preview

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Tiresias Salon: A Trans-Psychoanalytic Reading Group
Jan
26

Tiresias Salon: A Trans-Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Tiresias Salon: A Trans-Psychoanalytic Reading Group 

Mondays bi-weekly, Sept 15, 2025 – May 31, 2026

11PT/12MT/2EST

Hosted by Tobias Wiggins 

The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly trans-centered psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings will be inspired by the P-Hole curriculum, which is running in parallel. We come as together as queer and trans clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimaged at the margins. Readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants will include clinicians seeking to reflect on dynamics in their practice, scholars engaging psychoanalysis in their research or writing, and activists interested in drawing psychoanalytic insights into social and political realms.

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Tiresias Salon: A Trans-Psychoanalytic Reading Group
Jan
12

Tiresias Salon: A Trans-Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Tiresias Salon: A Trans-Psychoanalytic Reading Group 

Mondays bi-weekly, Sept 15, 2025 – May 31, 2026

11PT/12MT/2EST

Hosted by Tobias Wiggins 

The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly trans-centered psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings will be inspired by the P-Hole curriculum, which is running in parallel. We come as together as queer and trans clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimaged at the margins. Readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants will include clinicians seeking to reflect on dynamics in their practice, scholars engaging psychoanalysis in their research or writing, and activists interested in drawing psychoanalytic insights into social and political realms.

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Tiresias Salon: A Trans-Psychoanalytic Reading Group
Dec
22

Tiresias Salon: A Trans-Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Tiresias Salon: A Trans-Psychoanalytic Reading Group 

Mondays bi-weekly, Sept 15, 2025 – May 31, 2026

11PT/12MT/2EST

Hosted by Tobias Wiggins 

The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly trans-centered psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings will be inspired by the P-Hole curriculum, which is running in parallel. We come as together as queer and trans clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimaged at the margins. Readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants will include clinicians seeking to reflect on dynamics in their practice, scholars engaging psychoanalysis in their research or writing, and activists interested in drawing psychoanalytic insights into social and political realms.

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Tiresias Salon: A Trans-Psychoanalytic Reading Group
Dec
8

Tiresias Salon: A Trans-Psychoanalytic Reading Group

Tiresias Salon: A Trans-Psychoanalytic Reading Group 

Mondays bi-weekly, Sept 15, 2025 – May 31, 2026

11PT/12MT/2EST

Hosted by Tobias Wiggins 

The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly trans-centered psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings will be inspired by the P-Hole curriculum, which is running in parallel. We come as together as queer and trans clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimaged at the margins. Readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants will include clinicians seeking to reflect on dynamics in their practice, scholars engaging psychoanalysis in their research or writing, and activists interested in drawing psychoanalytic insights into social and political realms.

Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1faZE4SDBjH4-dF1ccp7NFvUhZFYpPoFubt3UoWHg-wE/preview

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